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| Acknowledgement: The proposals from the Bodleian's Collections were kindly transcribed by Paula Dryburgh, Librarian of the Todhunter-Allen Collection, Bodleian Map Section. |
| One of the consequences of so little being known about Rocque's background,
life, and publishing output - one only has to look at the checklist so
see the number of presumed states of maps that he published - is the dependence
of primary sources to reconstruct his career. Given that Rocque was
not an atlas publisher, but principally a publisher of separate sheets,
much of the available information comes from the maps themselves, proposals
that he issued to announce major projects, and broadsheet catalogues that
he circulated to advertise his stock.
Transcribed below are three proposals issued by Rocque. Two show variations as the project in hand evolved, and are valuable evidence of the progress made. Two are also important as containing catalogue of Rocque's stock with prices. A separate catalogue listing, which seems to date from 1761/2, shortly before his death is transcribed. Its importance lies in the fact that this period was high-point of his career, and thus contains listing of all his publications (with maps by other publishers interspersed). |
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| PROPOSALS, / (By JOHN ROCQUE, LAND-SURVEYOR) / For ENGRAVING and PRINTING
by SUBSCRIPTION, / A NEW and ACCURATE MAP of the Country adjacent to the
/ Cities and Liberties of LONDON, WESTMINSTER, and Borough of SOUTHWARK;
/ From an exact SURVEY thereof, begun in 1741, and now finished. / The
ENGRAVING is now in Hand, and the whole will be finished with all possible
Expedition.
THIS MAP will be contain'd in sixteen Sheets of the best / Imperial Paper, being eight Feet in length, and six in depth. / The Space comprised within this Compass, will contain / nineteen Miles in length, and thirteen in depth; that is to say, 247 / square Miles, or 158080 Acres: And as it is laid down by a Scale of / 1000 Feet to one Inch; or about five Inches ¼ to a Mile, this MAP / will admit not only an exact Description of all the main and cross Roads, / Lanes, Paths and bye Ways; where the Buttings of all the Walls, Pales / and Hedges, will be set down, but all the Hills, Vallies, Rivers, Bridges, / Ferries, Brooks, Springs; Ponds, Woods, Heaths, Commons, Parks, / Avenues, Churches, Houses, Gardens, &c. and in short all that can be / desired in so particular a Survey. This MAP will extend on the East Side, beyond Wanstead and Woo- / wich; on the West Side, beyond Hampton-Court, on the North Side beyond / Harrow on the Hill; and on the South Side beyond Bromley, in Kent. And will contain, besides, a general Plan of London, Westminster, and / Southwark, in the Center of the MAP; the correct MAPS extent, and Si- / tuations of all the Buildings, Gardens, &c. contain'd within those / Limits; with the several Roads, Lanes, Ways, Passages and Communi- / cations between them. All the remarkable Seats, Parks, and Gardens, are very correctly, and / particularly laid down in this MAP; such as Kensington's, Richmond, / Hampton-Court, Chiskwick, Wanstead's, &c. And any Gentleman may / have his Seat and Gardens as particularly inserted, (in case they are / not so already) upon Terms which no Gentleman, it is presumed, will / think unreasonable. It is universally allow'd that such a MAP will be of great Use to all / Directors of Insurance Offices, and Commissioners of Turnpikes, to all / Church-Wardens and Overseers, to all Persons who have Occasion to / Travel round this Metropolis, for Business, Health, or Pleasure; and / lastly, to all curious Persons at Home or Abroad. // | // By comparing this MAP with the Celebrated MAP of Mous.r Roussel, / containing Les Environs, or the Country round Paris; and with all / other MAPS, of the Countries round, all the large Cities of Europe, it / will plainly appear that no Country is so fruitful, so well cultivated, / so much built upon and inhabited, and so beautiful as the Country round the Metropolis of the British Empire. For the greater Conveniency of the Subscribers, and at the Desire of / several able Judges, this MAP will be engraved, printed, sold and dis- / tributed in sixteen single Sheets, at 2s. 6d. per Sheet: The first will be / published in January next, and the whole within the Term of eighteen / Months, and sooner if possible. These Sheets may be preserved loose in a Book, like other MAPS, or / pasted all together on Cloth:- And tho' this MAP is of so large a Size, / when put on a Roler, to the Cornish of a Room, it will not interfere / with any other Furniture, and yet by means of a small Pully, may be / let down for Examination at Pleasure. A Specimen of this Work is added to these Proposals, and the Public / may depend on the whole being as exactly laid down, and at least as / Neatly engraved as this Specimen. No Money is required of the Subscribers before Hand, but the Persons / who have a Mind to incourage this Work, and to take the Sheets as they / come out, are desired to send, or leave their Names, Qualifications, and / Places of Abode, at the several Print Shops in London and Westminster, / and at Mr. Bartholomew Rocque's, of Walkam-Green; where these Proposals / are delivered gratis; and from whence every Sheet, as soon as printed, / will be sent to the Subscribers respected Places of Abode, if desired. N.B. At Mr John Rocque’s Place of Abode, which is next to the Sign / of the Duke of Grafton’s Head, in Hyde-Park-Road, may be Seen the / Original MAP, compleatly finished; and at the same Place may be had / the Plans of the Cities of Bristol and Exeter, from actual Surveys, taken / by the said John Rocque. |
| [Untitled Map Centred On Syon House] R. Parr sculp. [5e, ob]
W-E: 'ISLEWORTH' - 'KEW GREEN' N-S: 'BRENTFORD' - 'PART OF THE DEER PARK' [Old Deer Park] [scale] 'Scale of half a Mile' - no numerals / graduations] (65mm) [3e, ob] Map: 185 x 252 Platemark: 190 x 256 Page: 442 x 255 |
| The map is printed above the letterpress; cf. Howgego, London, 94;
This is the earlier version of the proposal, with no sheets as yet engraved.
Copy described: Bodleian, Gough Maps 41.f.151 Other locations: BL, Maps 187.L.1.(22) |
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| PROPOSALS, / BY / John Rocque, Land-Surveyor, / For ENGRAVING and PRINTING
by SUBSCRIPTION, / A New and Accurate MAP of the Country adjacent to the
CITIES and LIBERTIES / Of LONDON, WESTMINSTER, and BOROUGH of SOUTHWARK;
/ From an Exact SURVEY thereof, begun in 1741, and now finished. / The
Engraving is now in Hand, and the whole will be finished with all possible
Expedition.
THIS MAP will be contain’d in sixteen Sheets of the best / Imperial Paper, being eight Feet in length, and six in depth. / The Space comprised within this Compass, will contain / nineteen Miles in length and thirteen in depth, that is to say, 247 / square Miles, or 158080 Acres; And as it is laid down by a Scale of / 1000 Feet to one Inch; or about five Inches ¼ to a Mile, this MAP / will admit not only an exact Description of all the main and cross Roads, / Lanes, Paths and bye Ways, where the Buttings of all the Walls, Pales / and Hedges, will be set down, but all the Hills, Vallies, Rivers, Bridges, / Ferries, Brooks, Springs, Ponds, Woods, Heaths, Commons, Parks, / Avenues, Churches, Houses, Gardens, &c. and in short all that can be / desired in so particular a Survey. This MAP will extend on the East Side, beyond Wanstead and Woo- / wich; on the West Side, beyond Hampton-Court, on the North Side beyond / Harrow on the Hill; and on the South Side beyond Bromley, in Kent. And will contain, besides a general Plan of London, Westminster, and / Southwark, in the Center of the MAP, the correct MAPS extent, and Si- / tuations of all the Buildings, Gardens, &c. contain’d within those / Limits; with the several Roads, Lanes, Ways, Passages and Communi- / cations between them. All the remarkable Seats, Parks, and Gardens, are very correctly, and / particularly laid down in this MAP; such as Kensington’s, Richmond, / Hampton-Court, Chiswick, Wanstead's, &c. And any Gentleman may / have his Seat and Gardens as particularly inserted, (in case they are / not so already) upon Terms which no Gentleman, it is presumed, will / think unreasonable. It is universally allow'd that such a MAP will be of great Use to all / Directors of Insurance Offices, and Commissioners of Turnpikes, to all / Church-Wardens and Overseers, to all Persons who have Occasion to / Travel round this Metropolis, for Business, Health, or Pleasure; and / lastly, to all curious Persons at Home or Abroad. // | // By comparing this MAP with the Celebrated MAP of Mons. Roussell, / containing Les Environs, or the Countrey round Paris; and with all / other MAPS, of the Countries round all the large Cities of Europe, it / will plainly appear that no Country is so fruitful, so well cultivated, / so much built upon and inhabited, and so beautiful as the Country round the Metropolis of the British Empire. For the greater Conveniency of the Subscribers, and at the Desire of / several able Judges, this MAP will be engraved, printed, sold and dis- / tributed in sixteen single Sheets, at 2s. 6d. per Sheet: Four of which are / published and the whole will be, within the Term of eighteen Months, / and sooner if possible. These Sheets may be preserved loose in a Book, like other MAPS, or / pasted all together on Cloth:- And tho’ this MAP is of so large a Size, / when put on a Roler, to the Cornish of a Room, it will not interfere / with any other Furniture, and yet by means of a small Pully, may be / let down for Examination at Pleasure. A Specimen of this Work is added to these Proposals, and the Public / may depend on the whole being as exactly laid down, and at least as / Neatly engraved as this Specimen. No Money is required of the Subscribers before Hand, but the Persons / who have a Mind to incourage this Work, and to take the Sheets as they / come out, are desired to send, or leave their Names, Qualifications, and / Places of Abode, at the several Print Shops in London and Westminster, / and at Mr. Bartholomew Rocque’s, of Walham-Green; where these Proposals / are delivered gratis; and from whence every Sheet as soon as printed / will be sent to the Subscribers respected Places of Abode, if desired. N.B. At Mr John Rocque’s Place of Abode, which is next to the Sign / of the Duke of Grafton’s Head, in Hyde-Park-Road, may be Seen the / Original MAP, completely finished; and at the same Place may be had / the Plans of the Cities of Bristol and Exeter, from actual surveys, taken / by the said John Rocque. |
| [Untitled Map Centred On Syon House] R. Parr sculp. [5e, ob]
W-E: 'ISLEWORTH' - 'KEW GREEN' N-S: 'BRENTFORD' - 'PART OF THE DEER PARK' [Old Deer Park] [scale] 'Scale of half a Mile' - no numerals / graduations] (65mm) [3e, ob] Map: 185 x 252 Platemark: 190 x 256 Page: 442 x 255 |
| The map is printed above the letterpress; cf. Howgego, London, 94;
this second form refers to four sheets as having been engraved.
Copy described: Bodleian, Gough Maps 21.f.20v |
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| [text below] PROPOSALS / for publishing by subscription by / JOHN ROCQUE
/ Land Surveyor. / An Actual Survey of the Counties of / OXFORD, BUCKS
AND BERKSHIRE, / in four Sheets on a Scale of one Inch to a Mile exactly
describing the Boundaries of / each County with the True Position of all
the / Cities, Towns, Villages, Farm-Houses, Mills, the Main and Cross-Roads,
By-Ways, Hills, Vallies, Rivers, / Brooks, Ponds, Bridges, Woods, Heaths,
Parks, Seats of the Nobility and Gentry, / and all that can be desired
in such a particular Survey.
CONDITIONS. The Price to Subscribers will be one Guinea and a half, ten Shillings and six pence to be paid / at the time of Subscribing and one Guinea more on the Delivery of the Work which will be in / May 1751, and as a better Encouragement to Subscribers there will be given Gratis a Map of / each County on one Sheet to the Subscribers only. Subscriptions are taken in by John Rocque, next the Rummer Charing Cross; at M.r Hughes Post Master, / at Reading; at M.r Pote Bookseller at Eaton. Where may be had Survey'd and Publish'd by the same Author. / A Plan of London in 24 Sheets 3.l.-3.s London and ten Miles round in 16 Sheets 2.l-2.s the two reduced on one sheet each 5.s / A Map of the County of Salop in four Sheets 10.s-6.d A Plan of Shrewsbury 2.s-6.d Paris and country adjacent in seven / Sheets 1.l-1.s Paris in one Sheet 2-6. City of Bristol on four Sheets10.s-6.d. Bristol on one Sheet 2.s-6.d City of Exeter 10.s-6.d / Chester 10.s 6.d A Sett of Plans of twenty Foreign Cities 10.s-6.d. Pontefract 7.s. 6.d. Richmond 5.s. Wilton 5.s. Chiswick 5 Shill.gs / York 2.s -6.d Kensington 2.s-6.d Plan and View of Claremont 3.s. Esher 2.s 6.d Earl of Lincolns Gardens 2.s-6.d Windsor 2.s-6.d / Chibucto Harbour 2.s-6.d Rome 2.s-6.d Geneva 2.s-6.d Lions 2.s-6.d Calais 2.s 6.d Berlin 2.s-6.d. A View of Greenwich Hospital / 2.s.- 6.d. View of Constantinople from the Hellespont 1.s. He has likewise great choice of Foreign Maps and Plans, & / Books relating to Arts and Sciences. N.o ____________________ 175_____________
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| Untitled map of part of Buckinghamshire: north to south: 'IVER HEATH'
- 'WINDSOR', west to East: 'Eaton' - 'Longford']
B: 105 x 135 [headed] A SPECIMEN. [3a, ob] |
| Bodleian, Gough Maps 41 i.(1) |
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| PROPOSALS / for Publishing by Subscription by / JOHN ROCQUE / CHOROGRAPHER
and TOPOGRAPHER to His Royal Highness the PRINCE OF WALES. / An Actual
Survey of the Counties of / OXFORD, BUCKS AND BERKSHIRE, / in four Sheets
on a Scale of one Inch to a Mile exactly describing the Boundaries of /
each County with the True Position of all the / Cities, Towns, Villages,
Farm-Houses, Mills, the Main and Cross-Roads, By-Ways, Hills, Vallies,
Rivers, / Brooks, Ponds, Bridges, Woods, Heaths, Parks, Seats of the Nobility
and Gentry, / and all that can be desired in such a particular Survey.
CONDITIONS. The Price to Subscribers will be one Guinea and a half, ten Shillings and six pence to be paid / at the time of Subscribing and one Guinea more on the Delivery of the Work which will be in / May 1753, and as a better Encouragement to Subscribers there will be given Gratis a Map of / each County on one Sheet to the Subscribers only. Subscriptions are taken in by John Rocque, next y.e Barr Southampton Street Covent Garden, M.r Hughes Post Master, / at Reading; at M.r Pote Bookseller, at Eaton. Where may be had Survey'd and Publish'd by the same Author. / A Plan of London in 24 Sheets 3.l.-3.s London and ten Miles round in 16 Sheets 2.l-2.s the two reduced on one sheet each 5.s / A Map of the County of Salop in four Sheets 10.s-6.d A Plan of Shrewsbury 2.s-6.d Paris and country adjacent in seven / Sheets 1.l-1.s Paris in one Sheet 2-6. City of Bristol on four Sheets10.s-6.d. Bristol on one Sheet 2.s-6.d City of Exeter 10.s-6.d / Chester 10.s 6.d A Sett of Plans of twenty Foreign Cities 10.s-6.d. Pontefract 7.s. 6.d. Richmond 5.s. Wilton 5.s. Chiswick 5 Shill.gs / York 2.s -6.d Kensington 2.s-6.d Plan and View of Claremont 3.s. Esher 2.s 6.d Earl of Lincolns Gardens 2.s-6.d Windsor 2.s-6.d / Chibucto Harbour 2.s-6.d Rome 2.s-6.d Geneva 2.s-6.d Lions 2.s-6.d Calais 2.s 6.d Berlin 2.s-6.d. A View of Greenwich Hospital / 2.s.- 6.d. View of Constantinople from the Hellespont 1.s. He has likewise great choice of Foreign Maps and Plans, & / Books relating to Arts and Sciences. N.o ___[June 7th]_______ 175[1]__________
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| [Untitled map of part of Buckinghamshire: north to south: 'IVER HEATH'
- 'WINDSOR', west to East: 'Eaton' - 'Longford'] [headed] A SPECIMEN. [3a,
ob]
B: 105 x 135 |
| [In the final paragraph, the text in square brackets is manuscript]
Copy described: Berkshire Record Office (BL, Maps 187.l.2.(1): photocopy) |
RECEIVED of [left blank - to be completed in manuscript] Half a Guinea, being the first / Payment of the above two Maps, which I promise to deliver on receiving Half a / Guinea more. |
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A LIST of the WORKS of / JOHN ROCQUE, / GEOGRAPHER and TOPOGRAPHER,
near Old Round Court in the Strand. / [list in 2 columns]
N.B. Foreign Maps, Plans, Battles, Sieges, compleat Atlas's, / Sea Charts, &c. by De L'Isle, Roberts, Bellin, D'Anville, / Broukener, Le Rouge, the Academy of Berlin, &c. / In a short Time will be publish'd, / The Environs of London, in four Sheets, very neatly executed, / and will be pasted so as to fold to go into the Pocket, which will / be very entertaining for Ladies and Gentlemen who take an Airing about this Metropolis. |
